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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Only in extreme circumstances does the cost (in processor time and I-cache footprint) translate to a tangible benefit - circumstances which usually resort to hand-coded assembly anyway. It shouldn't be 10%, unless it's cache effects. Google should be no surprise because they pioneered continuous profiling.)

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Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy

The Morning Paper

Compress objects, not cache lines: an object-based compressed memory hierarchy Tsai & Sanchez, ASPLOS’19. Last time out we saw how Google have been able to save millions of dollars though memory compression enabled via zswap. If we compress objects instead of cache lines though, we can get to a 56% compression ratio (c).

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Average Page Load Times for 2020 – Are you faster?

MachMetrics

Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. Google’s best practice is to be below 0.5 However, Google’s best practice is to keep the number of requests below 50, so there is still work to be done. Google’s best practice is to achieve a time under 1.3 seconds on desktop and 11.4

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From Heavy Metal to Irrational Exuberance

ACM Sigarch

Second, optimization efforts for JavaScript were the subject of probably millions of developer hours by a number of companies, notably Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, and built on decades of research in the PL community on how to optimize such languages (starting with the Self project , which started in the late 80s).

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

There are millions of sites, and you are in close competition with every one of those Google search query results. On your first try, you can use it as a benchmark for optimizations later. Active Memory Caching. Caching partially stores your data and is not used as permanent storage. Caching Schemes.

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What Web Designers Can Do To Speed Up Mobile Websites

Smashing Magazine

Instead, I suggest that web designers use another Google testing tool called Test My Site. Test My Site is a mobile page speed testing tool from Think with Google. Although we’ve been told for years that visitors are willing to wait three seconds for a web page to load , Google considers 2.9 Clean coding practices. Minification.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. PowerPoint or Google Slides). This is as it should be. Trusted Types.

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